That’s what I keep saying. For most people who utilize an iPad for content consumption, the chip I currently have in my 2017 IPP is STILL overkill. The battery will give in long before the chip becomes too slow - or Apple will stop updating this device b/c it’s just too old or RAM limited. The chip however, would likely chug along just fine.
Right, there are users out there that will certainly benefit. My point was, for the vast majority who simply consume content - the gains will not be realized in a meaningful way.
Why not both? (and the website indicates it will be, but I thought it was going to be a 12 core part?)
Indeed. Will be interesting to see the contrast between how it performs in a MacBook versus in a iPad Pro.
Well, for people like me that hang on to their computers for a long time, that is very helpful. It means the computer maintains its usefulness longer and doesn’t start to feel like it’s slowing down as much with future updates. I regularly keep my computers for over 5 years.
I get that, and so do I. But we reached the point that any good computer is powerful enough to last over 5 years if you want it to some time ago. "Future proofing" isn't what it used to be.
Seems like the next IPP chip is still somewhat up in the air.
I dont see the problem
Yeah I think for me the value I get out of the benchmarks is just having a general sense of when progress is being made in performance and efficiency but at the end of the day it doesn't necessarily factor into my purchase decisions. There are some that revel in the leadership in benchmark results of a particular platform for example and I can't relate to that as well as they can. Apple can make the greatest rig in the world but if it can't natively do something that can be done on another platform then those great performance specs won't factor strongly into a purchasing decision if one needs that particular software. Likewise if I want to run FinalCut I'm not going to consider doing it via VM on a Windows rig, and I'm not sure I want to go through the hassle of building a hackintosh.
True but I think with iPads the amount of RAM is the joker here not the CPU, it always was the RAM for iPads, I've had problems with that on two iPads now. Especially as Apple tries to get bigger productivity applications (Apple and 3rd party) onto the iPad over the coming years. I've upgraded the RAM on many a PC, not so on my iPads.
As the RAM is shared between CPU and GPU, this is likely the maximum amount of the shared memory that the GPU can allocate. For lower bit depths, it would need less, for example.
